The sun is starting to appear so we are starting to make our home made Ice Cream using summer berries from the Kitchen garden so that we can offer our visitors an Ice Cream Sundae with local clotted cream during lunch.....
Our Smoothies are wonderful too!
From 2nd August, we are going to be offering a family sharing meal: Kitchen Garden roasted vegetable & herb Lasagne served with a seasonal salad bowl.

July 19th

Today the sunshine returned after some overcast and rainy days. While Jude worked on the tomatoes, Patrick cut the stems of the elephant garlic, so it can be dried. Matthew and Peter picked currants in the fruit cage. This year has been an especialy good year for all currants, black, red and white, and we now have black and white on sale at the turret. We are managing a few punnets of cherrie each day too, but twithout netting the birds get msot of them.
The harvesting of bulky crops has begun, starting with a good crop of first early potatoes which we were able to lift before the onset of blight. Courgettes are coming daily, and today we also picked the first marrows.
Sweet peas are still bright on the wigwams, but we have stoped harvesting them as they are tailing off and we want to leave something to be seen for as long as possible. The star turn among the flowers now are ther very striking purple and white dahlias near the turret.

BK

Our Murder Mystery evening with Tiverton Dramatic Society on Friday 9th July, was a great success and everyone enjoyed the fabulous food made by Sharon, our Head Cook. To tempt your taste buds, we served: fresh Fennel and Garlic tarts; Summer Courgette Galette; home made Beef & Gammon Ham Terrine and finished with a home made White Wine Syllabub with freshly picked Starwberries from our Kitchen garden.
We have also welcomed 2 new team members: Charlotte Froom and Sonia Harris.

Murder Mystery

We are holding a 'Murder Mystery' on Friday 9th July 2010@ 7pm. There are still a couple of places left but they won't be there long. Come along and enjoy the fun..... Call The Stables Restaurant for tickets. Hope to here from you soon.

BT

Sharon our head chef has been busy in the kitchen the last couple of days preparing her lovely homemade cheesecakes and strawberry trifle. Come and see for yourself how special they look....
BT